It's not a secret to any of you that we're building (not that we ever tried to keep it a secret), but now the whole neighborhood knows someone is building on our lot on the Lane.
Hard to miss that sign, huh? We went to the lot again to show the staked out house to my parents. Marea took this photo. Not too bad for a 6-year-old!
While we were there, we ran into another family we know who is also building near us. We gave both my parents and the other family the "tour" of the staked out house. I'm telling you, you really have to use your imagination when touring a staked out house. It's hard to visualize a great room with a fireplace when you're really just standing on a slope with a bunch of tall prairie grass tickling your legs and bugs biting at your neck. For instance, this shot is of the front steps leading to a large front porch and the front door. See? Hard to visualize.
One thing we noticed while "touring" our house is that the deck ends up mighty close to the side of the neighbor's house. We're talking close enough to reach out and almost touch. At least our neighbor's don't have any windows where the deck is supposed to be. However, the deck would be enclosed on 3 sides so I'm not sure it will feel very deck-like (despite me wanting some privacy on the deck, this might be going a bit far).
So we're now rethinking the deck plan to some extent. We'll see what happens. The final plans should be done by the next post. I know you've been waiting on pins and needles (probably not, but we have been!) so we'll get those posted soon!
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